Example sentences of "to [be] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Happens to be a reversion of the two numbers which is neat . |
| 2 | Now it has to be a software engineer who rocks , an operations chief who scuba dives or the bank president who knows a Scandinavian folk song when he hears one . |
| 3 | Although Dundalk is supposed to be a seaside town , I could find no trace of a harbour . |
| 4 | When researchers want to understand what it is like to be , say , a Moonie , they can submit themselves to the sorts of conditions that a Moonie experiences — so far as these are social ; but the real Moonie can , quite legitimately , protest that if the researcher does not have a personal experience of God or actually know in their heart that it is the Unification Church which has discovered the best way to live , they can not really understand what it is like to be a Moonie . |
| 5 | A senior British source said yesterday : ‘ If the Irish find they can not ratify the Maastricht treaty there is n't going to be a treaty . ’ |
| 6 | England strikers Shearer and Wright had attracted all the pre-match publicity but their contest turned out to be a non-event . |
| 7 | Employees may be unwilling to take an assignment if it involves what appears to be a pay cut , even if local wages and prices in the country concerned are considerably lower than those at home . |
| 8 | The only architect appointed to be a judge was William Burn ( 1789–1870 ) . |
| 9 | It is surprising that he attended Hall 's conclave as he had a well-known dislike of competitions , but it is less surprising that he was selected to be a judge in view of his connections with two of the other judges and the probability that he would not wish to enter the competition himself . |
| 10 | But in David Souter 's court — and by no stretch of the imagination is this William Rehnquist 's court — whoever replaces Byron White will have little choice but to be a judge first , and a politician a very distant second . |
| 11 | PROFILE OF AN INDIVIDUAL SUITABLE TO BE A JUDGE |
| 12 | As Lord er the Lord Chief Justice said in a television programme Question Time er two nights ago it takes a good deal of experience before somebody 's qualified to be a judge and when you do become a judge you have a great deal to learn . |
| 13 | Liam thought long afterwards of the strangeness of those few days , and how he was brought back from what was to be a trip to America , just in time to arrange his own father 's funeral . |
| 14 | From the early 1960s onwards it was to be a trip that many young English radicals were to make . |
| 15 | Why was there thought to be a factory called Bramble in Newcastle ? |
| 16 | She said nothing to her family , she wanted it to be a surprise . |
| 17 | And if it 's meant to be a surprise attack , why are they making so much bloody noise ? ’ |
| 18 | I want it to be a surprise . ‘ |
| 19 | It was Willie 's birthday on Thursday and he wanted it to be a surprise . |
| 20 | He wanted it to be a surprise for you , and I 'm only telling you in advance in case — in case you should think it might have been me . " |
| 21 | It is to be a surprise . |
| 22 | I wanted it to be a surprise — a present . |
| 23 | It was meant to be a surprise . |
| 24 | Of course , Heather could do it , but I want this to be a surprise all round . |
| 25 | Rob wanted the party to be a surprise — ’ |
| 26 | He looked infuriatingly cool , unmoved by her imperfectly concealed annoyance , as he answered , ‘ I preferred our second meeting to be a surprise . ’ |
| 27 | I 'd sooner leave that to be a surprise at the birth . ’ |
| 28 | In what was considered to be a goodwill gesture to back their peace proposal , the cartel released Juan Vitta , an editor of the magazine Hoy por Hoy and one of seven journalists the cartel was holding hostage [ see also p. 37772 issue ] , on Nov. 26 in the city of Medellín . |
| 29 | She was to be a Spirit Warrior . |
| 30 | Under the Net and Lord of the Flies are too philosophical to be called angry , Golding ( in any case ) was always seen to be a spirit apart , and a few of these authors were strikingly young at their moment of first success . |